Meta has to invest more money into screening advertising so they ban more ads and therefore make less money.

Unless there is a genuine financial (or legal) impact, they have no incentive.

Companies in the US still use a huge array of known harmful ingredients because they work better and are cheaper.

Blame the government for lack of regulation, that's what they're there for.

I honestly don't get why companies need to train on prompts any more? Surely they've got PLENTY of training material, and the advancements these days come from architectural improvements?

Not at all. As companies refine their models to perform better at specific tasks, they need more data to train on that specific task. I know first hand that the frontier labs are reaching out to all kinds of companies asking to license their software to run so they can train on it. The stated reason is not to reproduce that tool, but to get better at operating it, though history tells us that reproduction will naturally follow even if unintended.

We have talked to many customers who specifically wonder if our software could learn to perform better for them by learning from their interactions - they are suggesting we train on their work! This tuned model would only be allowed within their enterprise, of course. It's understood that the models know how to do this generally, but every situation is different, and results could be better if taught how these specific situations work.

Better to have people suspect your model isn't as good as you're claiming, than to prove it outright?

I just wanted to say thank you for posting this. It was a wonderful break from the norm, and I've enjoyed reading everyone's comments. I haven't enjoyed anything here or in general in a while.

Thank you!

With luna's pricing, is the power consumed not likely to more than the cost of API calls?

At 50tps on a 3090 for qwen 28b or similar, that's about 200k tokens/hour. Which is what...10c for Luna (balanced input vs output). 1h of power at 30c/kwh is 30c? So you get a worse model, for more cost?

I pay about $0.14/kwh and don't need it all the time. API calls might be cheaper. I develop in a way where I break things out where well defined tasks can be handed to a local model.

I think the opus5.5 vs fable5.1 situation has been my tipping point where I completely ignore these benchmarks now. Fable is just better than Opus5.5 in all cases I've ever used both and compared. I don't care what the benchmarks say, they're just not reflective of my needs, so they're not relevant to me - other people may have different experience.

I suspect a lot of organisations are already on automated AI detect-patch-redeploy loops for a lot of these types of issues.

Is there a definition of standard of living? A king would be entertaining, socialising, and strategising most of the time (along with a lot more pursuits of hunting, etc for leisure). While I understand they had less access to healthcare and variety of food, travel, etc...id still argue they had a better standard of living than someone that works 8-10h/day and then comes home to cook and clean?

America's poor today have clean water, health care, washing machines, central heating and air conditioning, flush toilets, hot and cold running water, electric lights, hot showers, fresh vegetables and fruit year round, glass windows, cotton undies, ice cream, TVs with 24/7 entertainment, talk to anyone in the world at the push of a button, need I go on?

The poor have those things because they still have some amount of power. They're still needed for work, and if you make too many of them too desperate, they can threaten the people at the top. But if you let the wealth (and power) gap get too large this will no longer be the case, and the poor might lose access to those things. If the wealth gap becomes such that the rich can afford automated production and protection but the poor can not, the current economic and political systems will no longer have a reason to give access to any of those things to the poor.

I think you want to replace fresh vegetables and fruits with processed ready meals.

Being available is not equal to a person being able to afford it.

Maybe you were writing about middle class and not the poor?

So, fruits and vegetables cost more than processed ready meals? Yesterday I bought a banana for $.22.

The government provides food to the poor with SNAP.

The only starving people in America are drug addicts or very ill people. Obesity is the usual problem for poor people.

You don't need to be a middle class to be able to afford electric lights, mobile phones, apples, oranges and grapes all year round.

On the other hand kings had free-range organic grown meat prepared by personal cook anytime they wanted which is a true luxury even today.

No they didn't. In castles meat wasn't very fresh at all, and food poisoning was both common and a common cause of death especially in medieval times. Which is why we have so many traditional dishes that are effectively just ways to keep food fresh and especially safe for longer. How many stew recipes did people invent worldwide, for example? Slow cooking will keep food edible for a week if you do it right. And if you really push it, for months (ie. add animal gelatin as a last step and keep cooking for 2 hours after that, at some point it will solidify and you get something that can be considered "instant soup" by extremely flexible interpretation). If you look back 100 years there are books with year-round menus, and bits of that survive. Why? To give you specific dishes when the ingredients are available according to the "agricultural calendar" as it's called in France. Christmas is great. October sucks.

The very oldest book in the bible contains the basic recipe for keeping meat fresh for ~week, and that's what Kosher, Halal, ... are really about.

And yeah, it depends. Roman emperors, for example, would have had fresh meat available whenever. Medieval kings, no way. Renaissance kings ... probably not constant fresh meat, and certainly not constant fresh fish, but a lot better than medieval kings.

> On the other hand kings had free-range organic grown meat prepared by personal cook anytime they wanted which is a true luxury even

There is no refrigeration, so "fresh" meat has to be slaughtered the same day. Kings tended to live in populated areas, so wild game would be scarce. Majority of meat would have been pork kept in pens (not free-range in the modern sense), or mutton/goat (free range, but typically older and tougher). At the same time, even a king likely wasn't slaughtering 365 pigs/year just to have fresh meat every day - lots of dried, smoked, or even salted meat in the diet...

Kings has dozens or hundreds of people who did all those things for them, and more, at their command.

I think it’s disingenuous to imply that there isn’t an inequality issue because the basic standard of living has advanced since the Middle Ages. Even if we compare the standard of living for say, Mississippi lower third and Uganda lower third, it’s obvious that you’re better off in Mississippi. However, the fact that the wealth and means to uplift the poor actually exists in the US but is not exercised is itself an issue - Uganda does not have that possibility.

> Even if we compare the standard of living for say, Mississippi lower third and Uganda lower third, it’s obvious that you’re better off in Mississippi.

I mean, it’s no wonder people move from uganda to mississipi (or other places in the us) and not rhe other way around.

Uganda's a popular destination with US evangelical bible belt Christians.

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/feb/25/us-evang...

Not to settle and raise their families

No, just to colonize with their religious before they fly back to their mega churches and call it charity.

I mean I ask Claude "please be concise in your responses" and it cuts down it's long response rate by a lot.

Using free copilot, which honestly is not the smartest model+harness out there, correctly identified to grab the ball and put it next to the elephant. I don't know what llm intermediary they're using here, but they seriously cheaped out...